Oregon State Capitol, governor’s office (Salem Reporter/file) SALEM — The Oregon Health Authority is recommending that Gov. Kate Brown ban for six months the display and sale of all vaping products, both nicotine and cannabis based. The recommendation is one of six related to curtailing use of vaping products across[Read More…]

Oregon State Capitol rotunda (Salem Reporter/file) SALEM – When state Rep. Tiffiny Mitchell of Astoria won election to the Oregon House to represent the north coast, there was a lot flying through her head.  On election night last Nov. 6, she thought of the people who made her campaign a[Read More…]

A $450,000 federal grant will allow the local Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to construct a new facility. (The Enterprise/Joe Siess) VALE – State game officials with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife go to work each day in Ontario preserving Malheur County’s wildlife in a leaky, old[Read More…]

A field burns through a ranch during the 2015 fire season (Courtesy Oregon Department of Forestry) SALEM — Saturday marked the official start of Oregon’s wildfire season, but without new resources the state is only incrementally more prepared to combat fire this summer than in past years.  Over consecutive summers,[Read More…]

Oregon State Police Capt. Tim Fox, left, and Superintendent Travis Hampton stand and clap as Trooper Nic Cederberg is awarded the Medal of Valor by President Donald Trump. (Aubrey Wieber/Salem Reporter) SALEM – Oregon State Police Trooper Nic Cederberg stood in the White House on Wednesday afternoon as President Donald[Read More…]

PORTLAND — The state of Oregon needs to overhaul the way it handles people found guilty except for insanity and better track what happens to them once they are released from state jurisdiction, the head of the agency that supervises such defendants said. In an interview, Alison Bort, executive director[Read More…]

State Rep. Mitch Greenlick, D-Portland, introduced legislatoin Friday that would remove non medical exemptions for required vaccines for public school children. (Jaime Valdez/Portland Tribune) Introducing vaccine-related legislation is the political equivalent of swatting a hornets’ nest. Regardless of what the legislation does, it’s guaranteed to bring out emotional and passionate[Read More…]

Gov. Kate Brown, embroiled in a sudden political firestorm, on Wednesday directed her state education administrators to immediately release school performance data they intended to withhold until after the election. The state Department of Education had provided what are generally known as “school report cards” to local districts Oct. 4,[Read More…]